Word: smutting
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...knifes through Los Angeles' West Hollywood residential district, Santa Monica becomes a garish, grubby, milelong gauntlet of sex-book stalls, theaters and 8-mm. peep shows for voyeurs, and massage parlors and sexual encounter centers for those who want direct action. The Boulevard is a flexible ribbon of smut that expands or contracts according to the apathy or indignation of the surrounding stucco-house neighborhoods. It is, in a way, a bit of the Old West, a semilawless, laissez-faire street of chance, a zone of temptation and humiliation, harshly lit by neon signs that crackle their messages: ADULT, ENTER...
...reading your article on why television viewing is dropping, I couldn't help noticing that nothing is mentioned about taste. Contrary to the opinion of the networks, there are still a great many people who are simply not interested in smut, prostitution, sadistic violence and other forms of "adult television...
Trying to be more Freudian than Sigmund, Legman plays many varia tions on his single theme: smut springs from unconscious fears and rages and is usually directed by males against females. His illustrations on the war be tween the sexes range from the earliest skirmishes to a cocktail-party confrontation: a beautiful woman propositions a man. "My place or yours?" he asks...
Despite periodic brouhahas over rulings on pornography, courts rarely jail anyone for peddling or promoting smut. The last defendant of note to do any time was Ralph Ginzburg, who served eight months for the prurient promotion of his magazine Eros. Now, however, three prominent pornicators-an actress, a publisher and a reformed smut merchant-face the threat of prison...
Last year the court gave local jurisdictions the right to apply their own standards in determining what is illegally obscene. But this year it unanimously overturned one such local ruling while upholding another. Now the way is open for an endless string of smut cases to be appealed to the Supreme Court. In school desegregation disputes, the court has seemed ambivalent, particularly on the question of busing. After one decision that appeared to encourage busing, Burger issued an unusual "memorandum" suggesting that lower courts were misreading the ruling...